Oh don’t worry, Adam, clockwork is certainly okay when used appropriately –
like in locks, trains, sky ships, drosometers, and, ur, clocks. Clockwork
in toys is really quite innocent. Blessed Kàrijoi specialized in ballerina
dolls who could dance of their own accord, for instance, and those dolls
are highly prized today, since the Emperor has made no new toys in a
generation.

Such clockwork is a far cry from the great war machines
built beyond the Great Wall of the South upon the Crimson Moons, where the
skies have been blackened, where entire forest galaxies are fed to the
machines, and where even the insect life has gone extinct and been replaced
with clockwork bugs. That place is just plain scary.

Of course, if you really want to scare children, remind
them that the First Necromancer made clockwork out of bones, skin, mud, and
straw. Some say those creatures were powered by the fear of children – the
Necromancer has no face after all …

The real question is, what did Kàrijoi Khniikhaqlaûsa do to
the bad children back in the day?